BONE SCAN

Domain	Definition
Health	A technique to create images of bones on a computer screen or on film. A small amount of radioactive material is injected into a blood vessel and travels through the bloodstream; it collects in the bones and is detected by a scanner. (references)
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Commercial Usage: BONE SCAN

Non-Fiction Usage: BONE SCAN

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Evidence of tumor spread is sought with x-rays, tomograms, gallium scan, bone scan, liver scan, and bone marrow examination. (references)
		Some children may be minimally affected, with no asymmetry, deformity or fracture, and lesions detected only by a bone scan. In a few children, lesions are found only in the base of the skull. (references)
		A more sensitive method of finding lesions is a bone scan, in which a small amount of radioactivity (an isotope of technetium) is injected into a vein, taken up by the abnormal tissues, and detected by a scanner. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: BONE SCAN

Anagrams: BONE SCAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-n-n-o-s"
	-1 letter: ancones, beacons, sonance.
	-2 letters: ancone, bacons, bancos, beacon, beanos, bonnes, canoes, canons, nances, nonces, oceans.
	-3 letters: acnes, aeons, ancon, bacon, banco, banes, banns, beano, beans, bones, bonne, canes, canoe, canon, canso, cones, conns, ebons, nabes, nance, neons, nonas, nonce, nones, ocean, onces, scena, scone, senna.
	-4 letters: abos, aces, acne, aeon, anes, anon, bane, bans.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-n-n-o-s"
	+3 letters: benzocaines, carbonnades, condensable, consignable, noncabinets.
	+4 letters: benefactions, concubinages, conscionable, cybernations, inconsolable, inconsumable, inobservance, noncrushable, nondiabetics, recombinants, sanctionable.
	+5 letters: antiobscenity, bonnyclabbers, concelebrants, incontestable, incontestably, inobservances, nonobservance.
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Alternative Orthography: BONE SCAN

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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Domain	Title
Books	Bone Scan (reference) (more book examples)
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Expression	Frequency per Day
bone scan	426
bone scan image	14
bone scan test	8
abnormal bone scan	5
ct bone scan	3
body bone scan whole	3
body bone scan total	2
bone scan arthritis	2
hip bone scan	2
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Specialty Definition: BONE SCAN